[Magdalen] Rent.

[Charles Wohlers]

The house here in Mass. (built ~1852) also has wall-to-wall carpeting - over 
wide pine flooring. Some of the boards are over a foot wide. OTOH, there is 
no subfloor - as the boards shrink (which obviously they do after 150 years) 
you can see directly into the basement through the cracks.

Chad Wohlers
East Bridgewater, MA USA
chadwohl at satucket.com



-----Original Message----- 
From: Lynn Ronkainen
Sent: Friday, August 05, 2016 3:27 PM
To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Rent.

All the homes I've lived in in Detroit suburbs and in Syracuse had carpeted 
hardwood throughout. The kitchen floors were also hardwood covered with 
linoleum. It wasn't until into the 70s that it started changing to plywood. 
Down here in southern TX most homes constructed since 60s are on a cement 
slab first floor and plywood upstairs.
Lynn



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On Aug 5, 2016, at 12:19 PM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com> wrote:

My Michigan Cape Cod-style home was carpeted that way after WW2 (and
some of the carpeting seemed to date from that era, although it
couldn't really have been THAT old), so it was almost like a gift to
be able to pull up a corner and see the well-protected hardwood. I
removed all the carpet in my living room and had it refinished; this
plus having the small yard relandscaped helped me make a 50% profit on
the sale of the house after seven years. Oh, new roof on the back
addition as well. And Gutter Helmets.

On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 10:33 AM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen
<magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
> I'm old enough to remember the fad for wall to wall carpeting that
> enveloped the USA after WW-2.  My mother went so far as to carpet  all
> the oak hardwood floors in our Wisconsin home.




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Scott R. Knitter
Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA